domestic art

“I’m always worried for her. I’m her mother. But this is in our blood; my mother made decorative embroidery, it was domestic art back then. It is Ekin’s genes to create.”

Buyers here appear to be following a pattern already seen in Japan and other countries, where they initially concentrate on domestic art and then expand their focus, Mr. Galbraith said.

The National School of Domestic Art and Science aimed to teach home economics to women.

New collectors in middle-income countries often start with domestic art, explains Sergey Skaterschikov of Skate’s, an art-market research firm.

Alongside the portraits of the dealer’s sons by Renoir, the sense of Impressionist painting as domestic art starts to emerge.